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Sometimes I miss LJ.
Not enough to do the whole "I'm totally coming back and making this part of my routine again!" before disappearing two weeks later thing. But I do miss it. How it used to be, with comments and new posts to read everywhere you looked. I met a lot of cool people here, both with this journal and with my previous one. Most of them ( Read more... ) -
RIP, reflectionesque.
My friend Darlene, among my first online friends, died Tuesday, August 11. She was 34 ( Read more... ) -
March and April 2015 book report.
March
6 books
1733 pages
1. The Coast: A Journey Down the Atlantic Shore by Joseph J. Thorndike.
2. The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle.
3. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente.
4. The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.
5. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
6. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.*
April5 books ( Read more... ) -
February 2015 book report.
5 books
1318 pages
A dismal month all around -- in reading, in weather, in general life news. I blame myself for getting into the habit of not reading, as well as everything else going on right now that turned my attention span into something more closely related to a squirrel.
1. The Just City by Jo Walton.
2. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 53 ( Read more... ) -
January 2015 book report.
5 books
1946 pages
A dismal month for reading, a fault I lay at the feet of Five Weeks in a Balloon, which took a week to finish, and especially Vonda N. McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun, which I don't think I will ever finish. Seriously, that latter book broke the part of my brain that knows how to read. I feel like I have to train myself how to ( Read more... ) -
A hike to look forward to.
The more I think about it, the more I think 2014 was something of a boring hiking year because I didn't pursue any big ambitions. I had planned to do some major stuff, like attempting to summit Mount Marcy and do a couple weekend trips packed with miles in new terrain (like coastal Maine and Shenandoah National Park), but I stopped going to the gym ( Read more... ) -
December 2014 / year-end book report.
11 books in December
2836 pages
A month in which I cracked into some books I'd been looking forward to for a while -- Lin Carter's Year's Best Fantasy Stories series from the '70s -- and found them the book equivalent of schlocky B-movies (or Z-movies), so bad I've gotten hooked on writing hate-reviews. There were some other books too, but right ( Read more... ) -
Photography, backpacking plans, fitness, finances.
I'm toying with the idea of a photo-a-day project in 2015, the sort of thing I did back in '08. The trouble is, there isn't much variety in my day to day life nowadays, not like there was in '08. Back then I went to school (lots of my pictures were taken while exploring campus), took a class featuring lots of lovely animal bones, had a job (which ( Read more... ) -
November 2014 book report.
10 books
3854 pages
A solid month with some pretty good books and nothing really bad, which helped encourage me to read more (in terms of pages, at least) than in any month since June.
1. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two, edited by Gordon Van Gelder.
2. Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious ( Read more... ) -
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Wrote a long entry. LJ's code garbled it. Fuck it.